AncientWire Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 I want a plant to wind around a stake and I haven't been able to easily accomplish it with vectors in Affinity Desgner. In Affinity Photo, I would just erase parts of the stake. Easy! So I may be thinking about this the wrong way Knife and Scissors will cut up the stake, but the edges are strange and don't match the plant, or the pieces won't fill, or I move a node and everything goes crazy. I have tried Shape Builder to delete the stake where it intersects the plant, but it deletes both the stake and the plant. What I did to accomplish the plant and stake on the right is completely redraw each bit of the branch so that it is 6 separate parts. I can certainly do that, but I think there must be an easier way, I just can't see it. Thanks for your advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Off the top of my head, make a copy of the stake. Move the copy to the very back. Remove the stroke from the stake in the front and start cutting that with the Knife tool and deleting the bits that cover the Vine. Should work. Cut at the red lines and remove the Yellow bits. AncientWire 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Take a look at this. So the stake is 5mm the stroke 1mm so the brown blocks are 4mm, ok that's easy but if they were irregular shapes, I would just take a bit more time drawing blocks with the Pen Tool. AncientWire 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientWire Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowave Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Hello, simply 'Shape Builder' and compound modes (Add). Here is an example below: AncientWire and firstdefence 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientWire Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 Thank you very much! I had to watch several times and check my settings and layer order. Once I got it right, it took me almost no time at all! Nowave and firstdefence 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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